linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] irqchip: Add bcm2836 interrupt controller for Raspberry Pi 2.

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Date:	Mon, 13 Jul 2015 23:09:56 -0600
From:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-rpi-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] irqchip: Add bcm2836 interrupt controller for Raspberry
 Pi 2.

On 07/11/2015 01:51 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 07/07/2015 03:13 PM, Eric Anholt wrote:
>>> +static struct arm_local_intc intc  __read_mostly;
>>
>> It'd be nice to give everything (types, functions, variables) a
>> consistent symbol prefix; bcm2836_arm_irqchip_ sounds like a good
>> bikeshed to me, but perhaps just propagating the above arm_local_ to the
>> functions too would be good, although that seems to risk symbol name
>> collisions with other ARM SoCs.
> 
> Which is irrelevant because its static.

Except if you want to look up a symbol name without having to qualify it
by filename.

Or, does e.g. gdb require statics always be qualified even if they're
globally unique?
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